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A Dream of Passion

November 25, 2015

David Choi Corinne Chateau THR 501 106 – Basic Technique I November 24, 2015 A Dream of Passion – Assignment 3 We live in a culture that too often shuns raw, unadulterated, organic experiences between humans. Propriety is inculcated from the earliest ages so as to produce well-adjusted members of society. So when it comes time…

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An Actor Prepares, malgré lui

November 4, 2015

David Choi Corinne Chateau THR 501 106 – Basic Technique I November 3, 2015 An Actor Prepares – Assignment 2 v2 I take on the driving, freezing rain in defiance, naked and possessed by my compulsion, but human malgré lui. I am 40 miles west of Denver, alone and 1,838 miles from home. To stand…

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One of the longest running dramas in Korean-American history

October 22, 2015

David Choi Corinne Chateau THR 501 106 – Basic Technique I October 22, 2015 An Actor Prepares October 19th, 2015 marked the 41st anniversary of one of the longest running dramas in Korean American history. 41 years ago two immigrants from the rural Chungbuk and Chungnam provinces of South Korea were brought together in an…

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MET Museum Assignment

October 11, 2015

David Choi Dr. Brian Rhinehart THR 503 – Theatre History I October 11, 2015 MET Museum Assignment I visited the Met on September 12, 2015, entering the Greek and Roman exhibition area first. I split with the group I arrived with and gravitating to a hyper-buoyant tour guide (likely a thespian himself), I hitched a…

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An Actor Prepares – Assignment 1

September 29, 2015

David Choi Corinne Chateau THR 501 106 – Basic Technique I September 29, 2015 An Actor Prepares (Constantin Stanislavski) – Assignment 1 Stanislavski discusses When Acting is an Art in Chapter 2. Specifically, he states, “Moreover, and this is of primary importance, the organic bases of the laws of nature on which our art is founded…

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Aristotle – Poetics (Outline)

September 16, 2015

David Choi, Gilluis Perez, Juhee Jang, Vaughn Pole Dr. Brian Rhinehart THR 503 – Theatre History I September 16, 2015 Poetics Outline Overview Chapter I Proposal for Discussion poetry itself the various forms of poetry the essential qualities of each kind of poetry structure of the plot number and nature of parts of which a…

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